Flagler man accused of killing dog with kitchen knife

Published: Saturday, February 18, 2012 at 5:30 a.m.

Last Modified: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at 1:49 p.m.

PALM COAST -- A 24-year-old man who was the victim of a stabbing several years ago is now accused of being the one doing the stabbing.

Sahmi Green, 24, was charged Thursday with felony cruelty to animals after investigators said he stabbed his roommate's dog to death, according to the 7th Circuit State Attorney's Office.

Green was accused of taking Samantha Lilly's dog behind the house they shared on Prospect Lane in Palm Coast on Feb. 12 and killing it, according to a charging affidavit. The charge is a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison.

Green stabbed the dog about seven times, the affidavit said. A blood trail led to a nearby house where a bloody kitchen knife was found, the affidavit said.

Lilly said Green had told her that he had taken the dog for a walk, and it had gotten into a fight with another dog.

Green is being held at the Flagler County Inmate Facility without bail. Besides the felony cruelty-to-animals charge, he faces several charges unrelated to the dog's stabbing. Green is charged with resisting arrest without violence, battery, grand theft and use of an anti-shoplifting countermeasure device.

Green has had a troubled past. In April 2007, Green was the one being stabbed during a fight at the Flagler County Fair. The fight prompted authorities to close the fair on a busy Friday night. Green, 19 at the time, told a reporter then that he had not realized he had been sliced across his belly during the ruckus.

"When the fight was over," Green said at the time, "my bowels were hanging out of my stomach."

Green was taken to Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach.

Green denied being in a gang, but his accused attacker, Eduardo Raphael "Eddie" Gonzalez, who was 16 then, claimed to be a member of the Crips.

More than a year later, in August 2008, Green was hanging out with two Bloods gang members when all three were arrested after a drive-by shooting, which slightly injured a man in Palm Coast, according to police records. The two Bloods members were subsequently sentenced to prison.

Green also was arrested in December 2003 when he was 15 -- accused along with another man of shooting at a third man's car in Daytona Beach.

<p><p>PALM COAST -- A 24-year-old man who was the victim of a stabbing several years ago is now accused of being the one doing the stabbing. </p></p><p><p>Sahmi Green, 24, was charged Thursday with felony cruelty to animals after investigators said he stabbed his roommate's dog to death, according to the 7th Circuit State Attorney's Office. </p></p><p><p>Green was accused of taking Samantha Lilly's dog behind the house they shared on Prospect Lane in Palm Coast on Feb. 12 and killing it, according to a charging affidavit. The charge is a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison. </p></p><p><p>Green stabbed the dog about seven times, the affidavit said. A blood trail led to a nearby house where a bloody kitchen knife was found, the affidavit said. </p></p><p><p>Lilly said Green had told her that he had taken the dog for a walk, and it had gotten into a fight with another dog. </p></p><p><p>Green is being held at the Flagler County Inmate Facility without bail. Besides the felony cruelty-to-animals charge, he faces several charges unrelated to the dog's stabbing. Green is charged with resisting arrest without violence, battery, grand theft and use of an anti-shoplifting countermeasure device. </p></p><p><p>Green has had a troubled past. In April 2007, Green was the one being stabbed during a fight at the Flagler County Fair. The fight prompted authorities to close the fair on a busy Friday night. Green, 19 at the time, told a reporter then that he had not realized he had been sliced across his belly during the ruckus. </p></p><p><p>"When the fight was over," Green said at the time, "my bowels were hanging out of my stomach." </p></p><p><p>Green was taken to Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach. </p></p><p><p>Green denied being in a gang, but his accused attacker, Eduardo Raphael "Eddie" Gonzalez, who was 16 then, claimed to be a member of the Crips. </p></p><p><p>More than a year later, in August 2008, Green was hanging out with two Bloods gang members when all three were arrested after a drive-by shooting, which slightly injured a man in Palm Coast, according to police records. The two Bloods members were subsequently sentenced to prison. </p></p><p><p>Green also was arrested in December 2003 when he was 15 -- accused along with another man of shooting at a third man's car in Daytona Beach.</p></p><p>-----</p>